Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to burn his ships and cut all sources of retreat.

A quitter never wins and a winner never quits.

A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

Don't wait. The time will never be just right.

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

Fears are nothing more than a state of mind.

The number one reason people fail in life is because they listen to their friends, family, and neighbors.

Keep your mind fixed on what you want in life: not on what you don't want.

A positive mind finds a way it can be done; a negative mind looks for all the ways it can't be done.

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

I come to a world of iron to make a world of gold.

Speculation in land may be necessary to capitalism, but speculative orgies periodically become a quagmire of destruction for capital itself.

He [John McCain] is a war hero because he was captured. I like people that weren't captured.

The structure of world peace cannot be the work of one man or one party or one nation. It must be a peace which rests on the cooperative effort of the whole world.

If you take different mythologies from different cultures, the names may change and the story lines may vary but there is always something in common.

The way you write affects what you say.

Because it is correct to make a priority of young people, taking care that they turn out as well as possible.

If nobody ever worried about what was in other people's heads, we’d all be 33 percent more effective in our lives and our jobs.

'Forrest Gump' was great, it was fabulous. It lasted much longer than anybody thought, and brought me a degree of attention that no human being on the face of the planet deserves.